Places to try Lutefisk?

[Vodnik4]

Even mentioning Lutefisk makes people fly into murderous rage, so I want to try it once.

Heard that some Lutheran churches with Swedish-ancestry congregations do annual Lutefisk fry.

Anybody know of a place within an hour drive of Indy?
Any lead’s much appreciated!

 

[indyblue]

I don’t know of any place around here that does.

I’m not sure I’m that brave, even Andrew Zimmern made funny strained faces when he tried it on Bizarre Foods. And I’ve seen him eat just about everything and anything.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I don’t know of any place around here that does.

I’m not sure I’m that brave, even Andrew Zimmern made funny strained faces when he tried it on Bizarre Foods. And I’ve seen him eat just about everything and anything.

This. I've heard it is more than an acquired taste. You have to have a genetic predisposition to it.

 

[d.kaufman]

Had no clue what lutefisk was, so I Googled it

 

[natdscott]

Hell.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Even mentioning Lutefisk makes people fly into murderous rage, so I want to try it once.

Heard that some Lutheran churches with Swedish-ancestry congregations do annual Lutefisk fry.

Anybody know of a place within an hour drive of Indy?
Any lead’s much appreciated!

Mostly in Minnesota and UP Michigan. You could always do what my great grandma did, have someone mail it to you from Finland...

And it's not a "fry".

Hell.

Are you trying to insinuate something about my great grandma?

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Had no clue what lutefisk was, so I Googled it

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If you don't know what it is, look up surstromming. You'll think lutefisk sounds good.

 

[femurphy77]

Must have been watching "Drop Dead Gorgeous", eh? I love that movie, of course any movie where Denise Richards dies or is horribly disfigured gets two thumbs up from me, no matter how pathetic it is.

Edit: The wife said to try IKEA, she thinks they have it in their deli/snackbar.

 

[ZurokSlayer7X9]

Any dish that involves Sodium Hydroxide is going to be a hard no from me.

 

[EPeter213]

Even mentioning Lutefisk makes people fly into murderous rage, so I want to try it once.

Heard that some Lutheran churches with Swedish-ancestry congregations do annual Lutefisk fry.

Anybody know of a place within an hour drive of Indy?
Any lead’s much appreciated!

Irelt the same way about Vegemite. Some things are better lleft untasted.

 

[ghuns]

There's always Amazon...

Fermented Herring Swedish Surstromming

 

[littletommy]

I’ve never had lutefisk, but a friend of mine was stationed in Hawaii when he was in the army, and I remember one time he brought home a bag of some kind of fish jerky, and said he ate it all the time in Hawaii. I tried a piece of it, if you’ve ever smelled a dead fish laying on the river bank in the hot summer sun, THAT’S what that stuff tasted like, I didn’t even chew it, just bit of a small piece and immediately spit it across the room!

I’ve heard lutefisk is pretty much the same.

 

[shootersix]

I haven’t tried it but I hear there’s a specific way to eat it!

1-sit at your table
2-have someone sit the plate in front of you
3-pinch your nostrils shut
4-have a bite
5-find the nearest cat, immediately lick its a$$ to try and get the taste out of your mouth
6-place a curse on the ancestors of the person who thought of lutefisk!
7-repeat step 5 again, and continue to do so till the taste is out of your mouth
8-if additional cats are needed, please contact your local shelter!

 

[Michigan Slim]

Soak a three day dead bluegill in lye for three more days in the hot sun. Enjoy!

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

According to our bookkeeper at work, at one time the Butcher in Carmel carried it. She said that fish is kind of like smelt, and is typically served when they're running, which is usually starting around Thanksgiving. She said she'd be more than happy to bring some back to me on her next trip to LaCrosse; I vehemently declined.

She said there's also a Norwegian community somewhere in Indy that may have more info on local availability.

 

[Lmo1131]

" ... it's firm, yet melts in the mouth ... with the consistency of frozen vaseline, yet it's warm ..."

 

[russc2542]

This. I've heard it is more than an acquired taste. You have to have a genetic predisposition to it.

I'm half Norwegian. It takes more than genetic predisposition.

 

[Vodnik4]

" ... it's firm, yet melts in the mouth ... with the consistency of frozen vaseline, yet it's warm ..."

That description makes me want to try it even more! I’m weird like that
Also, nothing breaks the image of a mellow gentle Upper Peninsula guy like mentioning Lutefisk — insta-rage